[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

This time around I liked it more, but I still don't love it. I think a lot of that is just lowered expectations; knowing this was a Skull feature meant that I was able to just accept it for what it was. And what it was was fine.

Yeah, it's... if this was just a completely disconnected Skull V-Cin -- Shotaro reading through old case files or whatever -- I'd probably be unenthused, but generally forgiving. The two things that tank it for me here are the aforementioned last-ever chance at getting a Double story (Legend Rider appearances and other characters' V-Cins don't count) turning into a glorified spin-off, and the fact that the lens for said spin-off is Akiko learning that her dad abandoned her In A Good Way. The latter is a recurring Kamen Rider trope that I find infuriating, and the former is just such a monumental bummer. The producers want to do a thing where cool-ass Skull deals with betrayal and sacrifice? I'm down for that. They want to do it during a Double movie and make it so Akiko is the one who needs to learn a lesson? Slightly less down for that!